Principal Software Development Engineer

Workday, Inc.; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 198,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Principal Software Engineer to drive the development of distributed applications within their Document Storage - Persistence layer team. Candidates should have extensive experience in building resilient distributed systems and a strong command of open source technologies such as Erlang. This role emphasizes leadership in engineering teams and the development of innovative solutions for application services.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience designing and building large scale distributed systems.
• Expert in RIAK noSQL database and experience with Hadoop, Spark, HBase, etc.
• Leadership in teams developing highly resilient distributed databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development team in building and maintaining distributed applications.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery of applications in private cloud.
• Develop system techniques for customer success using JVM, OTP, and distributed technologies.

Skills

Distributed systems

Erlang

Scala

Linux networking

Distributed databases

RIAK noSQL

Education

Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science

Job description

As a Principal Software Engineer in the Document Storage - Persistence layer, you will be responsible for leading the development team that is building / maintaining / rapidly growing the current Erlang / RIAK application and new persistence layer applications the team will build and use in the future. We are considering fully remote candidates.

You are an engineer who is passionate about developing distributed applications in a multi-tenanted private cloud environment. You take pride in developing distributed systems techniques to coordinate application services, high availability and disaster recovery of applications in private cloud. You think not only about what is valuable for the development of right abstractions and modules but also about programmatic interfaces to enable customer success. You can make all of this happen using JVM, OTP, and related distributed computing technologies.

About You

Basic Qualifications

7 years of experience designing and building large scale distributed systems using open source technologies

7 years of experience coding in Erlang, Scala, Elixir or other similar language.

Other Qualifications :

Deep understanding of Linux networking and storage layers.

Lead teams of engineers building highly resilient distributed databases.

Expert in RIAK noSQL database.

Experience and understanding of the internals of at least one distributed system such as Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Cassandra, Kafka, etc.

Master’s or PhD degree in computer Science or equivalent experience

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission / bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please.

Primary Location : USA.MA.Home OfficePrimary Location Base Pay Range : $198,700 USD - $298,000 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range : $179,800 USD - $323,400 USD